About
Jeanne Marie Beaumont holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and is the author of five books of poetry. Her first, Placebo Effects, was selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by W.W. Norton in 1997.
This was followed by Curious Conduct, published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2004, Burning of the Three Fires, from BOA in 2010, and Letters from Limbo, published in 2016 by CavanKerry Press. Her latest collection, Lessons with Scissors, is forthcoming from Tiger Bark Press in 2024.
Jeanne Marie’s verse play, Asylum Song, had its world premiere at HERE Arts Theater in New York City in summer of 2019. In 2006, her poem from Curious Conduct, "Afraid So," was made into a short film of the same name by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt. It has been screened at numerous international film festivals, at the Museum of Modern Art, and on IFC.
In addition, she co-edited, with Claudia Carlson, the anthology The Poets' Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (Story Line Press, 2003). Her poems have been included in more than forty anthologies and textbooks, among them Good Poems for Hard Times, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 20th ed., The Norton Introduction to Literature, and The Practicing Poet.
Photograph : Lynne Saville
Her work has appeared in Harvard Review, Harper's, Manhattan Review, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She won the 2009 Dana Award for Poetry, and The Greensboro Review award for poetry in 2003. From 1992 to 2000, she was co-editor of the literary magazine American Letters & Commentary.
Jeanne Marie has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program of the University of Southern Maine, at Rutgers University, at The Frost Place, where she served as director of the annual Advanced Poetry Seminar (2006-2010), and for two decades at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Jeanne Marie is also a visual artist whose collage and assemblage work can be viewed here.
Select Honors
National Poetry Series, 1997
Dana Award for Poetry, 2009
The Greensboro Review Award for Poetry, 2003
Finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award, 2011